Congress economic resolution identifies job creation as the cornerstone of policy making
The Hindu
Draft discusses private contributions to job creation, need to focus on gig workers and taxation policies among other plans
The Congress, terming employment generation as the core and foundation of its draft economic resolution, said that India’s “new economic vision and action will be recrafted from the current obsession with capital and move more towards labour”.
The economic resolution as well as the international resolution — the draft for which expresses deep concern over the prevailing border situation along China — will be two of the resolutions adopted by the party in its ongoing 85th plenary session in Raipur.
Presenting the economic resolution, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath also identified unemployment as the biggest challenge before India and said that social harmony was a prerequisite for employment creation through foreign investment.
While the draft resolution credits the government led by the party for heralding a new beginning by liberalising the economy in 1991, it adds that the “time has now come for India to re-evaluate and re-prioritize its economic development roadmap in the backdrop of the twin attack on our economy, namely increasing unemployment and inequality”.
On employment avenues, the draft talks about State-led initiatives such as an urban NREGA similar to the MNREGA, generous loans to self-help groups to create “thousands of jobs” and “repeats the party’s commitment to fill all vacancies in government and semi-government bodies, the Armed forces, the paramiltary forces and public sector undertakings immediately”. But it also acknowledges that the private sector will be the “biggest and the best creator of jobs”.
“We need a new economic performance metric that correlates directly to the median Indian’s living standards, economic mobility, and hopes for a better future,” the draft says.
Acknowledging that the nature of work is also changing, the draft says the party believes in protecting the rights of gig workers – whose number is estimated to treble by 2029-30 from the NITI Aayog figure of 77 lakh as on June 2022 – and “providing them social security measures”.
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